The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-04-20
GOOD ADVICE.
Senator John Sherman to the Phila-
delphia Young Mems Re-
publican Club.
All Urged TO Take Up the Work OF
the Old Leaders with Re-
newed Energy.
Philadelphia special. ]

Special
The sixth annual banquet of the Young
Republicans of Philadelphia was given at
st. Georges Hall, in this city, and was
largely attended. The following letter
from Senator John Sherman was read, and
Its sentiments received with applause:
"WAsHINGToN, April 8.
Edwin 5. Stuart, Esq, President Young Re-
a publicans Philadelphia:
y MY DEAR SIR-While am compelled
to deny myself the pleasure of dining
with the Young Republican Club of Phila-
delphia, on April IL, take the occasion to
express my high appreciation of the value
OF their services to the cause of good gov
eminent, in which We all are, or ought to
be, enlisted. AS one of the seniors of the
Republican party, may be allowed to give
words of encouragement and advice to the
young men who have assumed, or will soon
assume, the control of our political organi-
cation. We certainly should feel pride in
the great measures that have been success
fully executed by the Republican
party; and, although you may not have to
conduct gigantic war for the preservation
of the Union, and will probably have no
such difficult tasks as reconstruction to deal
with, yet the work of the Republican party
Is but fairly begun. That which is past is
honorable; that which is to come will de-
pend chiefly upon the vigor, integrity and
patriotism of the young Republicans, who,
like yourselves, are now organizing to con-
tinue the work of the past.
what you have to do is still further to
develop and diversity American industry.
1t should be our aim to produce every
thing for which the god of nature has given
us the raw materials or which are suited to
our soil and climate. Every measure
should be supported that will tend to foster,
defend and protect home industries. We
should not be content until every channel
of communication capable of improvement.
and which will yield benefits equal to their
cost, shall be improved. The education
of the rising generation, with
out respect to race, color or
. constant object of desire. The equal
enjoyment of every civil and political right
given by the Constitution should be Sc
cured by every legal and constitutional
means. The shadows and prejudices of
the past should be lifted by the lights of
modern civilization. The workingman in
every condition and employment of life
should be encouraged, protected, and as
sisted by every reasonable means to advance
his condition, and to open up to himself
by honest labor and enterprise all the ave-
nues of wealth and honor. Our ADVERSE
ries may brood over the dead past, and
mourn the decay OF Confederate ideas, but
Republicans hail with unbounded satisfac-
ton every advance of our country in
strength and power at home and abroad,
conscious that this is consistent with the
full powers of State, county, and local gov
ernments reaching TO every family and
homestead in the land.
with the sincere hope that your society
and kindred societies throughout the United
States may take up the work of the Repub-
lican party and carry it to its logical re-
suits, am, as ever, very truly yours,
John SHERMAN"
SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS.
Ex-Governor John S. Wise, of Virginia.
was the guest of the evening. In respond
ing to a toast he made vigorous attack
upon the Demo ratio party. In overhaul
ing its record he said the Democratic party
had failed to carry out its pledges to repeal
the internal revenue laws; had defeated the
Blair educational measure after pledging
itself to its passage, and had won
power by its assault on the surplus, yet
had piled up larger surplus than ever.
1t has passed law of interstate commerce
so bad that its own commission is forced
to suspend its operation to avoid panic and
busint IS stampede. 1.-The Republican
party if it would win, he said, must
cease stalking its all on New York. Vir-
ginia is Republican, eleven counties, with
10000 whites and but $4,000 blacks, give
on an aggregate vote of 10000 Republi-
can majority of over 1000. Indiana no
more has Hendricks and Mcdonald to
lead the one is dead, the other snubbed.
West Virginia is Republican. Tennessee
and North Carolina are ready TO come.
Let us devote one tenth the energy and
means on them that has gone to New York
In the past and the victory is ours"